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Movie Theaters Will Keep Reeling It In

Piper Jaffray says outperformance at the box office will continue.

Updated April 14, 2009 12:01 a.m. ET

Piper Jaffray

IN THIS NOTE, WE HIGHLIGHT robust year-to-date box-office trends and the key drivers of our above-consensus 2009-2010 estimates. Year-to-date the domestic box office is up nearly 15% despite the battered consumer, lending credence to our thesis that solid content, escapism and low ticket prices relative to most other forms of out-of-home entertainment will combine to fuel solid box-office performance throughout 2009.